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The method was developed in order to reply to the demand of a non-touristic civic education visit of Berlin focusing on social, political and historical aspects of the city in a playful way. It was inspired by the cultural event photomarathon Berlin (fotomarathon.de) and has been implemented since five years in seminars of civic education financed by the Bundeszentral für politische Bildung (national agency of the civic education). The method invites the learner to observe a neighborhood, to speak directly to the inhabitants and upon this basis to reflect on social, historical and political themes, for instance the immigration, the gentrification, the transformation after 1990 of Berlin. It is based on the observation and the documentation of these data with the use of interviews, the photography or other methods mostly stemming from the ethnographical research.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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